The 4-Hour Body

I can give you every popular diet in four lines. Ready? • Eat more greens. • Eat less saturated fat. • Exercise more and burn more calories. • Eat more omega-3 fatty acids.         -The 4-Hour Body I picked for the 4-Hour Workweek because I thought Timothy Ferriss was the same Timothy Ferris who wrote The Whole Shebang-not quite.  The 4-Hour Workweek was fun and silly and about as useful as any other self help book.  The first couple of pages of the 4-Hour Workweek said you should start a business that makes five hundred dollars a day-and then he spends…

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Trying to Get In Shape

I used to be an avid cyclist.  I would ride a couple of hundred miles a week.  I read a lot of magazine.  Kept up with the Tours in Europe.  Watched the Cyclists in The Olympics riding their $40,000 dollar bicycles.  I was a sucker for all the gimmicky wheels, cogs, gear shifters, tires, water bottles, and clothes that were featured in ads and hanging on the walls of  my local bike shop.  But then I had to earn a living, and being Lance Armstrong was not going to be the way to do it. I also had a brief…

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